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Creepy Easter Bunnies

New Jersey residents Mike Bender and Doug Chernack, have turned their popular website into a book called, Awkward Family Photos. Caption: "The Easter Bunny - The Most Awkward Holiday Mascot (Doug Chernack's favorite photo)" Photos courtesy of Mike Bender and Doug Chernack.

The Easter Bunny brightened up the day for Romilda Di Domenico and Jay Roork, as well as other children in Cooper Hospital in this March 23, 1951 photo. J.C. Penny employee Betty Stanley donned the costume. Courier-Post

Pupils at the Sewell School received Easter eggs from the largest bunny they've ever seen, portrayed by Edward Wicker, in this April, 1965 photo. The party was sponsored by the Northeast-Sewell SPCA. Courier-Post

Jennifer Garrity, 6, a student at Respond Day Care Center in Winslow, stands on a fire engine with the Easter Bunny during an egg hunt sponsored by the center in this March 31, 1988 file photo. Courier-Post

In this Tuesday, April 19, 2011, photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Spencer Slate, garbed as a scuba-diving Easter bunny, places eggs on the sand in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Key Largo, Fla. An Easter tradition in the Florida Keys, Slate's Atlantis Dive Shop stages an underwater egg hunt on Easter Sunday that serves as a fundraiser for a local children's charity. Real eggs and nontoxic colorings are used to avoid negative ecological impacts. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Bob Care)

Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny (rear), portrayed by Mary Topolewski and Edward Wicker, look on as Jersey Joe Walcott presents a prize to Sylvia Riley, 8, of National Park, for an egg hunt which climaxed the third annual North Camden Easter parade. Courier-Post

April 19, 1949 photo of the winners of the first annual Easter egg hunt in Riverside, which was attended by more than 1000 children. Pictured with the "Easter Bunny" are Albert Pechillio, 11, and Carolyn Marris, 8, both of Riverside. Courier-Post